The International Social Turn
Unity and Brotherhood at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Kittelstrom (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 243-274 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion and American Culture A Journal of Interpretation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1052-1151 • E-ISSN: 1533-8568 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rac.2009.19.2.243 |
| OpenAlex | W1995714955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
When the World's Parliament of Religions convened at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, it brought together delegates of Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Islam, and several varieties of Christianity. Recent critics of the event have noted that the overwhelmingly Protestant organizers imposed their own culturally specific views of what constitutes religion on the non-Christian participants. But the guiding refrain of the Parliament-the unity of God and the brotherhood of man-reflects not only the specifically Social Gospel theology of the Protestant organizers but also a much wider consensus on the proper character, scope, and function of religion in a modernizing, globalizing, secularizing world. Buddhists from Japan, Hindus and Jains from India, and Buddhists from Ceylon actively participated in this international turn toward social religion as a way of pursuing their own culturally specific claims of distinct national identity, while Jews and Catholics in the United States equally adeptly claimed ownership of this central rhetoric of social religion in order to penetrate the American cultural mainstream
Buddhism · Christianity · Islam · Judaism · Mainstream · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
Comparative religion
The rise of the social gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915
American Catholic Expansionism
The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism
Religion and American Culture
Protestant--Catholic--Jew
The Spiritual Crisis of the Gilded Age
Chicago's Progressive Alliance
The Chautauqua Moment
The Challenges of Darwinism and Biblical Criticism to American Judaism
Religious Diversity and American Religious History
The Divided Mind of Protestant America, 1880-1930
The Sacred Rights of the Weak
Liberty and Justice for All
A Consuming Faith
Restless Souls
The Social Gospel in Black and White
The Holy Spirit and the Spirit of the Age in American Protestantism, 1880-1910
The Uses of Variety
Mission to America
The Invention of World Religions
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |